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“The temple was meant to dominate Thanjavur as Thanjavur dominated the rest of South India at the time: it was indeed the masterpiece of Rajarajaʼs ruleˮ  K.A Neelkanth Shastri In the last one year, we have travelled the length and breadth of India to document the treasure of

One of many reasons Greg Maddux was called “The Professor”. Best thing you’ll see today

Brian Chesky talks about how you end up with bureaucracy at a large company, and why designers cheered when they thought he removed PMs from Airbnb

It's fall which means it's intern recruitment time! SnowflakeDB is widely recruiting research interns to work on all kinds of problems around AI/LLM/Search. If you are interested or know any students who are looking for summer 2025 internships hit me up!

Peter Theil says the reason the Paypal mafia exists today isn't because of his hiring techniques but how he managed those people. Things like extreme bias for action, cult-like company culture, and "one thing" management philosophy. Founders must understand how it works:

♥️ this writeup from Anthropic for so many reasons: • Reiterating bm25 + semantic retrieval is standard RAG • Not just sharing what worked but also what didn't work • Evals on various data (code, fiction, arXiv) + embeddings • Breaking down gains from each step More of

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Nadal being asked about Federer's emotional letter but make it the iconic boyfriend moment

I'm excited to announce that I'll be serving as the Workshop Co-Chair for SIGIR 2025 alongside Zhaochun Ren ! 🎉 SIGIR 2025 will be held in beautiful Padova, Italy 🇮🇹. Workshop proposal submission: sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops… 🗓️ Proposal submission deadline: January 9th, 2025

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for workshops sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops… Let's brainstorm on IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Submission: Jan 9, 2025 - Notification: Feb 6, 2025 - Workshop day: Jul 17, 2025 More info? Ask Surya Kallumadi Zhaochun Ren at [email protected]

📣 📣 #sigir2025 call for workshops sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-workshops… Let's brainstorm on IR, RecSys, GenAI, RAG, and more. - Submission: Jan 9, 2025 - Notification: Feb 6, 2025 - Workshop day: Jul 17, 2025 More info? Ask Surya Kallumadi Zhaochun Ren at [email protected]

All the call for paper details have been posted. Great tracks. Superb keynote speakers. We're looking forward to your submissions. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it #sigir #sigir2025

While there are shinny things happing in LLM land ecommerce search is still damn hard to get right. My team at snowflake took a stab by experimenting with the TREC Product Search datasets. snowflake.com/en/engineering…

From the very beginning, one of our main goals was: Typing math should be as natural as typing plain text. No syntax, no coding—just start typing, no learning required

Great news! Gemma models are one of the most underestimated LLMs imho. The technical report is available here: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media…

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

“You could attach prices to thoughts. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.” Can we re-imagine the data lifecycle so that it works for humans and machines alike? Yes, we can. Thanks Davis Treybig (and team) and Aditya Agarwal (and team)!

This!

India and Pakistan have today worked out an understanding on stoppage of firing and military action. India has consistently maintained a firm and uncompromising stance against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. It will continue to do so.